The Mars Oxidant experiment (MOx) for Mars '96

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 46, Issue 6-7, 1998, Pages 769-777

  McKay, Christopher P ^a   Grunthaner, F J ^b   Lane, A L ^b   Herring, M ^b   Bartman, R K ^b   Ksendzov, A ^b   Manning, C M ^b   Lamb, J L ^b   Williams, R M ^b   Ricco, A J ^c   Butler, M A ^c   Murray, B C ^d   Quinn, R C ^a   Zent, A P ^a   Klein, H P ^e   Levin, G V ^f  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f Biospherics Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXIDIZING AGENT; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; HUMIDITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LONG DURATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SOIL; SPACE FLIGHT; UNMANNED; VIKING PROJECT;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; LONG DURATION; UNMANNED; VIKING PROJECT;

ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; EXOBIOLOGY; HUMIDITY; MARS; METEOROIDS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDANTS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SOIL; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 0032082118     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0032-0633(98)00011-7     Document Type: Article

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